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Monday, November 29, 2010

29 November - RSS SnapShot! Pt 2

new geography

You know that something is up when a Washington Post editorial advises that the Obama Administration do a "reality check" on its plans for high speed rail. From the beginning, there was more slow-speed than high speed rail, however both components of the plan could be in trouble. The Onion joined th ...

It has been said that the modern city is soulless, that it is heartless, and that it is brutal. The modern city represents in its scale and complexity one of the most extraordinary of human inventions, but there is also no doubt that everywhere in the world it is also one of our biggest failures. ...

Smaller, more nimble urban regions promise a better life than the congested megalopolis. Most of the world's population now lives in cities. To many academics, planners and developers, that means that the future will be dominated by what urban theorist Saskia Sassen calls "new geographies of centra ...

In my pre-election piece on the Toronto election, I discussed the city’s lingering malaise. It developed slowly but its roots can be traced to the 1998 amalgamation that swallowed up five suburban municipalities. This led to a six folds expansion of city boundaries and a tripling the population ba ...

Why do I persist in riding Amtrak, the short name for the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, a company originally owned by the freight railways, but now subsidized by Congress and run like a Russian bureaucracy, complete with late trains, sullen employees, myriad petty regulations, budget defi ...

Much of the wacky authoritarianism of twentieth-century dystopian literature is now coming to life, from the promotion of homosexuality as a check on population growth to the celebration of childfree women as superior to ‘breeders’.

Cryptogon

Via: Reuters: A university teacher was killed in a car bomb blast in Tehran and three people were wounded in another explosion on Monday, Iran’s al Alam Arabic language television reported. Al Alam said the dead person and one of the wounded were nuclear physics teachers. State radio said the attack ...

Notice to Readers with U.S. Government Security Clearances: The terms of your agreements with the U.S. Government may prohibit you from viewing the following SECRET//NOFORN document. This isn’t Covert Operations per se, but rather an example of the types of standard operating procedures that ALL gov ...

For whatever it’s worth: cablegate.wikileaks.org Via: Guardian: Among scores of disclosures that are likely to cause uproar, the cables detail: * Grave fears in Washington and London over the security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme, with officials warning that as the country faces economic ...

Via: My Helical Tryst: I am a biochemist working in the field of biophysics. … According to the TSA safety documents, AIT uses an 50 keV source that emits a broad spectra (see adjacent graph from here). Essentially, this means that the X-ray source used in the Rapiscan system is the same as those us ...

Via: New York Times: The Maars robots first attracted the military’s interest as a defensive system during an Army Ranger exercise here in 2008. Used as a nighttime sentry against infiltrators equipped with thermal imaging vision systems, the battery-powered Maars unit remained invisible — it did no ...

The Economic Collapse

On June 3rd, 2009 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke promised the U.S. Congress that the Federal Reserve would not monetize the debt of the U.S. government. On November 3rd, 2010 the Federal Reserve announced a massive quantitative easing plan which will involve the purchase of ...

It seems with each passing year the madness on Black Friday gets even worse. This year, there were reports of fights and rioting from coast to coast. It was estimated that over 180 million U.S. shoppers headed for the stores on Friday, and whenever you get that many people togethe ...

Buckle up and hold on - a new round of quantitative easing is here and things could start getting very ugly in the financial world over the coming months. The truth is that many economists fear that an out of control Federal Reserve is "crossing the Rubicon" by announcing another w ...

Over the coming weeks, Americans will be wishing each other "happy holidays" millions upon millions of times. But are these really happy times? Record numbers of Americans are going to be going hungry and cold this winter. Millions upon millions of our fellow citizens would gladl ...

The Federal Reserve is going back to Jekyll Island to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the infamous 1910 Jekyll Island meeting that spawned the draft legislation that would ultimately create the U.S. Federal Reserve. The title of this conference is "A Return to Jekyll Island: ...

Desertification

My friend Cathy DE MAIRE has sent this nice picture from New Zealand, showing magnificent production of kiwi fruits. Kiwi production in New Zealand (Photo published on Facebook by Cathy DE MAIRE) Looking at this Actinidia plantation, I realized … Continue reading →

SEEDS FOR FOOD http://seedsforfood.wordpress.com A Christmas Carol Christmas is an ideal moment to bring some nice news about the efforts you delivered to help some of the hungry and malnourished of this world. We thank you for helping us to … Continue reading →

Read at : Google Alert – desertification http://info.endz.co.cc/2010/11/combating-desertification-africa-counts.html Combating desertification: Africa counts on Algeria to defend continent’s positions ALGIERS- Africa group is counting on Algeria to support and coordinate the continent’s position in ...

Nearly every day over the last 32 months, members of a citizens group in Giles County, Va., have paid a visit to a seven-acre stretch of land along the ancient New River, where a planned business park is now under construction. They’ve snapped photos and shot video of bulldozers unloading more than ...

Banks and mortgage servicers accused of foreclosing homes improperly are being put under the microscope by regulators, who will recommend in January if extra supervision is needed, a senior Treasury Department official told the Financial Stability Oversight Council today.

backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher Early pickings for Canadians eager to find out what U.S. diplomats think of us, thanks to WikiLeaks' latest release of documents, labelled "cablegate," have been slim to none. Make that none. So far, just 220 of 251,287 files have been released, and none feature the American am ...

Call them WebMatrons -- a new breed of businesswomen who've reinvented themselves on the internet ~~ By Beth Hendry-Yim ~~ After spending more than half her life working hard to raise her two boys alone, Susan Peach is ready for life to get a little easier. At 46, the B.C. fitness instructor . ...

Coninued from page 1 Good, original content is the first and most important factor in getting and growing traffic, Peach explains. It not only draws potential customers in, but also keeps them browsing around and clicking on links and ads. For Lennard, creating content has had another plus side. ...

by Eric Pettifor Back in May I wrote a review of the Samsung U10 Pocket Camcorder, concluding "Because of the interface, I would only recommend this sweet little horror if you need something small and cheap which produces high quality vids right now." Time has passed, and I had the opportunit ...

By Frank Moher Time to update our 9/11 Honour and Dishonour Roll. Some fine qualifees have presented themselves in recent months. The original idea of the list was to record for posterity those news organizations that have or haven't done their job in covering 9/11. You'll find that roster her ...

Worldnews

Nepal's main Opposition Maoist party has condemned the paramilitary operation against Indian Naxalites, with its supremo Prachanda describing India as the principal enemy of the former rebels. The UCPN-Maoist, which ended its key party conclave on Saturday, condemned the...

MANILA, PhilippinesThe Department of Labor and Employment has issued guidelines detailing the exemption of women from a long-standing ban contained in the Labor Code prohibiting them from working at night. The decades' old prohibition has been repeatedly violated as many Filipino women work in ...

Muscular aches and pain are common among people across all age groups. But when this pain is persistent and hinder your day to day activities, it should become a cause of worry. Fibromyalgia may not be a household name, but it affects 30 per cent of population. 'Fibro' stands for fibrous body t ...

Ivan Eland sat with RT to discuss the astronomical political clout held by the welfare queens of the military-industrial complex that will thwart any translation of the Pentagon's rhetoric into actual policy

MY Daily Apple

An intriguing study published in Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy has revealed that the signaling protein JAK3 represents a viable target in the treatment of a broad range of B-lineage cancers, including acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).

NSW Premier Kristina Keneally confirmed a proposal to raise the legal drinking age to 21 in her state that will be considered in Cabinet this week. The bill is proposed by the Christian Democrats MP Fred Nile.

GFS BioProtect™ Effluent Remediator kills Vibrio cholerae O: 1, serotype Ogawa to Log 3 immediately, and the kill rate for this and several other pathogens continues to improve over time. The product breaks down B Class biomass (latrine and septic tank waste) into A class biomass suitable for reuse.

Common Dreams

by Kanya D'AlmeidaNEW YORK - What if young boys were imbued with a sense of empathy and fair play to counteract a culture that victimizes women? Could they grow up to become part of a generation that renounces gender violence once and for all?read more

by Jim LobeWASHINGTON - Given all the other foreign policy challenges he is dealing with, the last thing U.S. President Barack Obama needed three weeks after Republicans swept mid-term elections was the outbreak of a major new crisis on the Korean Peninsula.Yet the revelation that North Korea has s ...

by Matthew O. BergerWASHINGTON - While many U.S. residents prepare for their annual Thanksgiving feast Thursday, one in six are at risk of hunger - including a quarter of all children in the country.Globally, 925 million people, or a little less than 15 percent of the world population, is undernouri ...

The online website WikiLeaks on Sunday blamed the temporary outage of its site on a denial-of-service attack by unknown hackers trying to prevent its release of hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. State Department documents.read more

by David LeighThe United States was catapulted into a worldwide diplomatic crisis today, with the leaking to the Guardian and other international media of more than 250,000 classified cables from its embassies, many sent as recently as February this year.read more

Energy Collective

Over the next two weeks, world leaders will be deciding our climate future at the UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico. TckTckTck team members will be in Cancun tracking their progress towards a fair, ambitious and legally-binding climate treaty.

This week saw US politicians taking action to encourage offshore wind energy along the US Atlantic Coast. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced a new initiative dubbed ‘Smart from the Start’ with the purpose of selecting the best sites for offshore wind farms. The initiative is based on ...

This is a press release to accompany a new peer-reviewed paper by Martin Nicholson, Tom Biegler and me (Barry Brook), published online this week in the journal Energy. In subsequents BNC post, I will look at how the media has reacted so far to the story (the good, the bad and the ugly), and also exp ...

Obama has been saying (erroneously) for two years now that Republicans have good policy ideas for creating jobs, whereas Republicans have been saying (erroneously) for two years that Obama has job-killing policies.� Is it any wonder he had a shellacking in the 2010 election?

I joined RecycleBank for many reasons,�one due to an�observation regarding the application of rewards in the green space.� Quite simply, rewards have the potential to change consumer behavior without necessarily changing attitudes first. I first wrote about this in a 2007 blog post. Today, it remain ...

The fight over U.S. environmental policy will shift next year as Republicans take control of the House of Representatives, leaving the Obama administration chasing smaller victories in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

My green house project is starting to look like -- well -- an actual house, which is quite exciting. This past week, the Serious Materials windows were installed and next week, the sliding-glass doors are expected to follow.

Prior Art

Much of the patent news that was published on this blog has been moved to the IP Insider section of the Corporate Counsel website. Here's a list of the last several Patent Litigation Weekly columns— Oct. 25, 2010: Big Patent-Licensing...

With the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit set to consider a landmark case over the validity of human gene patents, attorneys for the plaintiffs in the suit are asking the court's chief judge to recuse himself from the matter—before the panel that will hear it has even been selec ...

seems to have a pretty flexible definition of that term. Last month, it included . Who is so concerned about such fairness? That would be , the Texas law firm that owns Americans for Fair Patent Use, which is a limited liability company set up to prosecute a false marking lawsuit filed in E ...

Moglen's position on the subject of software patents—that they should be banned—is, to say the least, outside the mainstream in legal circles. It has, however, garnered support among software developers and other techies, especially those who work in the world of open-source and free softw ...

Peoples Voice

By MMEO posted by Michael Collins Last night the Portland Peaceful Response Coalition, a non-partisan group cosponsored by the local chapter of the Pacific Green Party -- my party -- held its usual Friday night peace demonstration in Pioneer Courthouse Square, in the center of the downtown area o ...

By Stephen Lendman Launched on March 4, 2009, "The Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RTP) seeks to reaffirm the primacy of international law (to settle) the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (by focusing on) the enunciation of law by authoritative bodies (and) address(ing) the failure of application of law ...

by Stephen Lendman Overall, America's major media fails the test. It's biased, shameless, and irresponsible with "everything to sell and nothing to tell" as a noted US media critic once said. It delivers a daily diet of "managed news" (propaganda), infotainment, and "junk food news," a worthless ...

Peter Chamberlin “When asked what he aspires to become in the future, Wasifullah replies ‘God willing, I will join the Taliban.’ In what some ways represents the burgeoning civil war within Pakistan, Wasifullah’s best friend Abdurrahman believes it’s the Taliban who are responsible for the destruc ...

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

The Saskatchewan office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is a proud partner of Poverty Free Saskatchewan (PFS), a coalition of groups attempting to develop a comprehensive anti-poverty program for the province. Today we released Let's Do Something About Poverty!, in order to encourage ...

Bruce Livesey writes a blog in the Progressive Economics Forum showing the link between worsening income inequality and the threat of a Great Recession that could 'go on indefinitely'. Read the blog here.

A new CCPA study examines Canada's debt and deficit and finds that debt in Canada—even after two years of stimulus—is still at very low levels compared to other countries, and compared to the mid-1990s. Big Train Coming: Does Canada Really Have a Deficit and Debt Problem? says a sharp turn to spe ...

A new report by the CCPA and the Rideau Instittute says the planned purchase of 65 F-35 stealth fighter jets is the result of a ‘pilot error’ by the Canadian government. Pilot Error: Why the F-35 stealth fighter is wrong for Canada carefully examines all of Canada’s current and future security requ ...

World Wide Hippies

WWH-Leslie Nielsen, who dazzled with deadpan in The Naked Gun and Airplane!, passed away on Sunday at a hospital near his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he was being treated for pneumonia, according to the New York Times. He was 84. Leslie William Nielsen, OC (February 11, 1926 – November 28, ...

Public Outrage After Strip-Search Video Surfaces | AOL Public anger is mounting after the release of a video showing Ottawa police strip-searching a woman in the presence of male officers. Ottawa police say they have received more than 100 complaints since an Ottawa judge released the video showing ...

Democratic South finally falls | Politico For Democrats in the South, the most ominous part of a disastrous year may not be what happened on Election Day but what has happened in the weeks since. After suffering a historic rout — in which nearly every white Deep South Democrat in the U.S. House was ...

Michael Moore - Must Read

Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker, makes great movies but they are not generally considered “cliff-hangers.” All that might change since a whistle-blower on the “Democracy Now!” news hour revealed that health insurance executives thought they may have to implement a plan “to pus ...

Washington, DC, November 10, 2010 – Last week, David House, a developer working with the Bradley Manning Support Network, was detained and had his computer seized by the FBI when returning from a vacation in Mexico. He committed no crime, nor was he ever alleged to have committed a crime. He was que ...

The Muslims were bloodthirsty and treacherous. They conducted a sneak attack against the French army and slaughtered every single soldier, 20,000 in all. More than 1,000 years ago, in the mountain passes of Spain, the Muslim horde cut down the finest soldiers in Charlemagne�s command, including his ...

Salon

The online website WikiLeaks on Sunday blamed the temporary outage of its site on a denial-of-service attack by unknown hackers trying to prevent its release of hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. State Department documents.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is headed on a four-nation diplomatic tour to Central Asia and the Persian Gulf on the heels of Sunday's unauthorized release of a trove of sensitive State Department documents chronicling the behind-the-scenes conduct of U.S. foreign relations.

Hundreds of thousands of State Department documents leaked Sunday revealed a hidden world of backstage international diplomacy, divulging candid comments from world leaders and detailing occasional U.S. pressure tactics aimed at hot spots in Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea.

Anger on Sunday over a Somali-born teen's failed plan to blow up a van full of explosives during Portland's Christmas tree lighting ceremony erupted in arson on Sunday when a fire damaged an Islamic center frequented by the suspect, authorities said.

\Kasaba throws spit on cameraMUMBAI: Ajmal Kasaba webcam spit on Tuesday during a hearing in the Bombay High Court for confirmation of the death penalty, which led the court strictly tell him to behave properly. Judjes a warning when they Kasaba altercation with the police and spit at the camera saw ...

For SMB News Twin bombing at Shah Ghazi’s shrine kills 8 KARACHI: Eight people including two children were killed and over 65 others suffered injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Abdullah Shah Ghazi’s shrine in Clifton, official sources said here Thursday. Two heads, believed ...

For SMB News Musharraf seeks Pak nation’s apology for ‘mistakes’ LONDON: Former president Gen. (Retd.) Pervez Musharraf Friday admitted that political mistakes were committed in the twilight years of his regime and sought apology from Pakistani nation for the same. “These mistakes caused damage to t ...

Energy Collective

Over the next two weeks, world leaders will be deciding our climate future at the UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico. TckTckTck team members will be in Cancun tracking their progress towards a fair, ambitious and legally-binding climate treaty.

This week saw US politicians taking action to encourage offshore wind energy along the US Atlantic Coast. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced a new initiative dubbed ‘Smart from the Start’ with the purpose of selecting the best sites for offshore wind farms. The initiative is based on ...

This is a press release to accompany a new peer-reviewed paper by Martin Nicholson, Tom Biegler and me (Barry Brook), published online this week in the journal Energy. In subsequents BNC post, I will look at how the media has reacted so far to the story (the good, the bad and the ugly), and also exp ...

Obama has been saying (erroneously) for two years now that Republicans have good policy ideas for creating jobs, whereas Republicans have been saying (erroneously) for two years that Obama has job-killing policies.� Is it any wonder he had a shellacking in the 2010 election?

I joined RecycleBank for many reasons,�one due to an�observation regarding the application of rewards in the green space.� Quite simply, rewards have the potential to change consumer behavior without necessarily changing attitudes first. I first wrote about this in a 2007 blog post. Today, it remain ...

EU Times

With plush suites and an Italian chef, Ramallah’s first luxury hotel opened yesterday, bolstered by a Palestinian economy prospering despite a seemingly intractable conflict with Israel that threatens to undermine it. The five-star, US$42.6 million (Dh155.89m) MÃ¶venpick Hotel Ramallah towers over t ...

Switzerland is poised to vote on a controversial law that will allow for all immigrants – EU citizens included – to be automatically expelled from the country if they commit a crime. Even benefit fraudsters and burglars are targeted by the proposed new law, which polls show is likely to be passed in ...

The leader of Denmark’s populist Danish People’s Party, on which the government relies for support, said in a newspaper interview published on Sunday that pan-Arab television channels Al-Jazeera and Al Arabiya should be stopped from broadcasting to the country. Pia Kjaersgaard, leader of parliament’ ...

Dilma Rousseff, who was elected as Brazil’s first female president on Sunday, once told reporters that as a typical Brazilian girl in the 1950s she dreamed of becoming a ballerina. But as the 1960s saw the emergence of a brutal military regime in her country, she had to make some hard choices. “I qu ...

A new Tory MP has made a scathing attack on David Cameron for pro­moting women and people from the ethnic minorities over ‘white, Christian, married’ men. John Glen, the party’s former head of research, said his background effectively ruled him out for a min­isterial job under Mr Cameron. He said: ‘ ...

Stonecipher News

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Ashworth College. All opinions are 100% mine. With approximately 4,000,000 students today, more than 20 percent of all students enrolled in higher education are taking at least one course online. Self paced online courses all ...

Source: HealthDay News: "A faulty gene that greatly increases a woman’s risk of breast cancer also boosts a man’s risk for the disease, a new study finds. While most people think of breast cancer as a woman’s illness, in rare cases men can develop breast tumors as well. The new study found that me ...

According to Amanda Gardner HealthDay Reporter, "THURSDAY, July 15 (HealthDay News) -- One day after a U.S. advisory panel recommended that the controversial diabetes drug Avandia stay on the market -- albeit with added restrictions -- several medical organizations are urging patients not to change ...

From my Triond collection: I recently read Louis Althusser’s article on Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses. He discusses the production for conditions of reproduction by breaking down the Marxist theory into several fundamental aspects. Althusser discussed the differences between the proleta ...

Liquida : Worldwide News & Opinion

We won't call you Shirley, Leslie, but we will miss you. Airplane! and Naked Gun leading man Leslie Nielsen has died in hospital of pneumonia brought on by a staph infection. He was 84. Sure, you can argue that Nielsen had a very singular style and that he was little more than a one trick pony but ...

You’d think that by now someone on “we report, you decide” Fox News might be challenging Bill Kristol for sounding like a broken record urging regime change as the panacea for world problems. But don’t hold your breath. Although Fox News Sunday panelists Mara Liasson and Juan Williams argued pretty ...

I have a question. Several people are suggesting that the most interesting/damaging part of the Wikileaks embassy cable dump is the revelation that Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has repeatedly asked the United States to bomb Iran. Dave Schuler comments: It isn’t just King Abdullah—the rulers of Jord ...

The establishment is crowing over stopping a terrorist attack on a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland, Oregon. But I’m always a little skeptical of “sting” operations, as this one was. Perhaps not all sting operations amount to the government creating crimes that would not have happened w ...

The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference will be held in Cancún, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December 2010. The conference is officially referred to as the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and th ...

Groklaw

I'd like to know: what products would you launch? What ideas would you fund? I'm specifically interested in Big Ideas. Things like data liberation or self-driving cars. Or what's the one huge feature missing from a Google product? In essence, what are the big products, features, or ideas that you w ...

The venture capital markets work well most of the time. Venture capital is not financial engineering. It does not involve slicing up securities into parts and selling them off in baskets (until recently). It is about making an investment to turn nothing into something. When that something becomes a ...

Opera 11 Beta Released for Windows, Mac and Linux The latest Opera 11 beta was released a day ago and it is already getting rave reviews across the web. New tab management feature called Tab Stacking is impressive and we are probably going to see implementation of a similar feature in different brow ...

Control Points and Steering Mechanisms in Open Source Software Projects Most commercial software today depends on open source software. The commercial software might be using an underlying open source platform, or it might be incorporating open source components, or it might be provided as a commer ...

Politics in the Zeros

The Guardian Arab leaders are privately urging an air strike on Iran US officials have been instructed to spy on the UN leadership. Grave fears in Washington and London over the security of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme Suspicions of corruption in the Afghan government, with one cable allegin ...

They are stealing from pensioners to pay short-term debt owed to banksters who knowingly made risky private loans. This is corruption. No other word applies. Don’t be surprised when Geithener tries to grab 401(k) pensions here. Oh, the Irish made sure that senior bondholders got paid back at 100% on ...

The always amazing Gibson Research has a free program, DNS Benchmark, which checks your Domain Name Servers then recommends how to optimize them. If you have no idea what that means, the Conclusions tab on DNS Benchmark tells you exactly what to do in understandable terms. Gibson Research is also th ...

The problem is not debt incurred by the government but rather that the banksters, who knowingly bought garbage bonds and made flaky loans, are demanding to be paid back at 100% on the dollar by the government and that the Irish taxpayers foot the bill for banker’s plunder, greed, and recklessness. T ...

31 billion euros for Irish bank capital capital aid … Out of 31.5 billion euros total tax revenue for the year! Leaving 0.5 billion euros for the rest of the government. And please note that 31 billion is a *voluntary* contribution to the banks by the government. … Mortgaging the people of Ireland f ...

Just World News

Mary Robinson and Lakhdar Brahimi have a piece in HuffPo today in which they argue, probably correctly, that it is Gaza's women and children who are paying the highest price for Israel's now years-long siege of Gaza. They write: Women in this conservative society find their domestic responsibiliti ...

Today's the day! Laila El-Haddad will be launching her first book, Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between at 6:30 pm EST in Washington DC's Palestine Center. The event will be livestreamed. So come in person if you can-- but if you can't, make sure to watch the livestrea ...

A group of home-state Virginians and I are planning to build a network of in-state activists-- including our friends in the 7th congressional district-- to stand up for our country's interests against the near-treasonous positions on Israel being articulated by Rep. Eric Cantor. Last Wednesday even ...

I was at a meeting in Washington on Thursday where we were discussing the effects that the democrats' drubbing in the November 2 mid-terms could be expected to have on the so-called Israeli-Palestinian "peace process". Most of the participants were understandably glum. (This was just after the news ...

It has been a crazy and wonderful week! We launched Josh Foust's book Afghanistan Journal on Tuesday. Just prior to that, both his book and Laila El-Haddad's Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between went up for sale on Amazon. I've been completing the work on the hardcover ...

First Truths

The federal government is preparing itself, under the pretext of protecting our online privacy, for a huge power grab that will likely consolidate unprecedented amounts of our personal information in the hands of government. I commented on the development for the Center for a Stateless Society.

In a commentary piece for the Center for a Stateless Society, I argue that liberty is the channel through which to achieve egalitarian goals, that free markets are the best way to attack the system of privilege we're yoked to today.

Media Co-Op

Community members say negative impacts of the tar sands have a global reach Community members impacted by tar sands development came together in Edmonton this weekend to make it explicit that the tar sands isn't just an issue in Alberta, or e ...

Students, faculty, artists and activists debate the merits of funding education through the profits of the extractive industries On Wednesday, Nov 24, over 200 people from the Downtown Eastside (DTES) and the Simon Fraser University (SFU) com ...

As part of its promo tour meant to hype the Canadian government’s recent decision to purchase sixty-five F35 Advanced Stealth aircraft, Canadian Forces/Department of National Defense today rolled its four-member panel into Dalhousie Univers ...

First edition highlights community struggles and makes the links between climate and social justice Edmonton - At the fourth annual Everyone's Downstream conference, Climate Justice Montreal and members of the provisional comittee for the foun ...

Simcoe, Ontario Farm Owes + $1000 Per Worker In Wages Over 100 temporary migrant workers were denied wages and rights on the Ghesquire Plants Ltd, in Simcoe Ontario. After staging an unauthorized ("wildcat") strike, most of the workers have be ...

David Seaton's News Links

Peter King, a member of the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, said the latest release "manifests Mr Assange's purposeful intent to damage not only our national interests in fighting the war on terror, but also undermines the very safety of coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan ...

"...there's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight...." Lon Chaney Sr.(hat to James Kunstler)David Seaton's News LinksFirst, once again, it is important to remember that it is central to Glenn Beck's message that nothing in it make much, or sometimes any, sense at all. This is not some sort ...

"In today's world five times more money is being spent on drugs for male virility and on silicone implants for women than is being invested in research for a cure to Alzheimer's disease. This means that in a few years the world is going to be full of old women with big tits and old men with stiff co ...

It is some of the best well made propaganda I have ever seen…We are looking into this gentleman and this incredible propaganda against me – Glenn BeckDavid Seaton's News LinksHere is a marvelous video by Jonathan McIntosh of Rebellious Pixels that explains the Tea Party, Beck and Fox better than an ...

Picasso: (Children don't try this at home) Lenny Bruce: (Children don't try this at home)Once upon a time a� proud samurai of legendary ferocity approached an elderly zen master famous for his wisdom and asked him if heaven and hell existed. The ancient monk looked at the warrior with withering ...

EWG - Environmental Working Group

Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202-667-6982; Leeann Brown: leeann@ewg.org Bisphenol-A (BPA) will be banned from baby bottles come June of 2011, announced the European Union’s executive commission on Thursday. Citing concerns of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Vis ...

Contact: EWG Public Affairs 202-667-6982 WASHINGTON - Yesterday (Nov 19) it was announced that the $1.15 billion awarded black farmers in the Pigford settlement that arose from decades of discriminatory practices at the U.S. Department of... [[ This is a content summary only ...

Contact: EWG Public Affairs, (202) 667-6982 Washington, D.C. – For several years now, Environmental Working Group (EWG) has been warning of the risks associated with bisphenol A (BPA) – especially the BPA in baby bottles, sippy cups and... [[ This is a content summary only. ...

Contact: Renee Sharp, (510) 444-0973 x302 or renee@ewg.org Oakland, Calif. – Six dedicated public servants will be honored tonight in San Francisco for their shared commitment to protecting the health and environment of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my websi ...

Contact: EWG Public Affairs: 202.667.6982. alex@ewg.org Washington, D.C. – This month’s election is being called a referendum on taxpayer-funded bailouts and wasteful federal spending, but Congress may not have gotten the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my webs ...

Dr. Mercola Natural Health

By Dr. Mercola There's little doubt that one of the best ways to improve your health is to make sure you're eating plenty of fresh, minimally processed high quality vegetables, ideally locally-grown and organic, with a majority of them consumed raw. One simple way to boost your vegetable inta ...

A retired Canadian couple won $11.3 million in the lottery in July -- but they have already given almost all of it away. 78-year-old Violet Large was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for cancer when the couple learned that they'd won the jackpot. She and her husband Allen decided the money was a ...

A U.S. government survey claims that 1 in 10 U.S. children now has ADHD. This is a sizable increase from a few years earlier. ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) makes it hard for children to pay attention and control impulsive behavior. About two-thirds of the children diagnosed with A ...

In my experience, you can have the best diet in the world, have the best exercise program and be free from emotional stress, but if you aren't sleeping well, for whatever reason, it is virtually impossible to be healthy. In this interview, Dr. Rubin Naiman -- a clinical psychologist, author, teache ...

Context Older adults comprise the majority of new-onset heart failure (HF) diagnoses, but traditional risk-factor prediction models have limited accuracy in this population to identify those at highest risk for hospitalization or death. Objectives To determine if cardiac troponin T (cTnT) measure ...

Montreal Gazette

The federal government has taken a promising step toward taming the excesses of so-called "mega-trials," those long, intricate criminal proceedings that sap our court systems and cost taxpayers millions of dollars.

This newspaper, like almost everybody in Quebec, has been saying for months that an inquiry, with a broad mandate, a big budget, plenty of experienced investigators, and full subpoena powers, is essential and overdue.

The Quebec Human Rights Commission has earned its pay with this week's report on why foreign-trained doctors find it so difficult to practise here, while over 2 million Quebecers lack access to a family doctor. The response from the province's medical schools on the other hand is cause for alarm -an ...

The concrete slab that fell from the facade of a Peel St. hotel last year, killing 33-year-old Lea Guilbeault, had never been properly attached to the building, Quebec coroner Jacques Ramsay has found. This critical flaw was never uncovered because, in its 41 years of existence, the building ...

The concrete slab that fell from the facade of aPeelSt. hotellastyear, killing33-year-old Lea Guilbeault, had never been properly attached to the building, Quebec coroner Jacques Ramsay has found. This critical flaw was never uncovered because, in its 41 years of existence, the building had ...

Food World Order

from gmwatch: The only dubious aspect of this article is the suggestion that Monsanto's fortunes might be saved by its new soybean seed with "high levels of omega-3 fatty acids," which "could appeal to health-conscious consumers." We doubt that Monsanto soybeans (if GM) and health-conscious consumer ...

from natural news: America is already on the verge of drowning in sick-care bankruptcy, but the situation is about to get even worse. According to a new study released by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, three-fourths of Americans will be obese or overweight by 2020. That p ...

CrusadeWatch

source: Indian Express, October 24, 2010 Shevlin Sebastian It was midnight. Fr Jose George could not sleep because there was no fan in his room. Jose knocked on Anna Jacobs door. When she opened it, he told her he could not sleep. She invited him inside, because there was a fan. ...

source: Vijayvaani.com, Oct 25, 2010 Christianisation was the third force of colonialism as best expressed by Jomo Kenyatta, the late Kenyan leader, who said: When the white man came he had the bible we had the land. Then he said let us close our eyes and pray. When we opened our eyes ...

source: Helium.com, October 20, 2010 For many, religious experiences lead to religious conversion. While conversion need not stem from such an experience, per se, many convertees have cited religious awakenings as leading to a new spiritual perspective. But while science accepts a religious ...

Whole Truth Coalition

COTO Report British Edition goes to the Isle of Wight to bring you an almost three hour long interview with Mr. David Icke by Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher. In this interview we discuss his new book entitled Human Race Get Off Your Knees, the Lion Sleeps No More, the nature of reality and politics. links to ...

We Need Your Help Urgently Please so That Robert Green Can Stand for Parliament on the Hollie Greig Establishment Abuse Case Do you live in the constituency of Aberdeen South? The wards are: Queens Cross, Gilcomston, Langstane, Hazelhead, Peterculter, Murtle, Cults, Mannofield, Ashley, Holburn, Gar ...

What is the point of knowing what is going on if we then do nothing about it! ‘Paedophilia within the British establishment is rife.Â Up and down the country, innocent children are being sexually abused by people holding positions of trust in ways that are beyond the comprehension of ordinary dece ...

The Economic Collapse

On June 3rd, 2009 Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke promised the U.S. Congress that the Federal Reserve would not monetize the debt of the U.S. government. On November 3rd, 2010 the Federal Reserve announced a massive quantitative easing plan which will involve the purchase of ...

It seems with each passing year the madness on Black Friday gets even worse. This year, there were reports of fights and rioting from coast to coast. It was estimated that over 180 million U.S. shoppers headed for the stores on Friday, and whenever you get that many people togethe ...

Buckle up and hold on - a new round of quantitative easing is here and things could start getting very ugly in the financial world over the coming months. The truth is that many economists fear that an out of control Federal Reserve is "crossing the Rubicon" by announcing another w ...

Over the coming weeks, Americans will be wishing each other "happy holidays" millions upon millions of times. But are these really happy times? Record numbers of Americans are going to be going hungry and cold this winter. Millions upon millions of our fellow citizens would gladl ...

The Federal Reserve is going back to Jekyll Island to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the infamous 1910 Jekyll Island meeting that spawned the draft legislation that would ultimately create the U.S. Federal Reserve. The title of this conference is "A Return to Jekyll Island: ...

The Talking Clock

As the corporate media digests the latest Wikileaks sharing of information that, in my view, belongs to we the people... There are lots of headlines coming out such as this one on the Evening Standard feed which says: "Leaked cables 'include royal claim'". This, the Daily Express tells us, ref ...

"The proposed bail-out for Ireland is a bad deal for the UK. It puts the interests of the European Union and the eurozone before the interests of Ireland and the British Government should have no part in paying for it. Asking the British taxpayer to cough up £7 billion shows just how audacious th ...

Just did a Google search for the Irish treason laws. Just out of curiosity. Well, actually, in the hope that the Irish might have more b*ll*cks than our lot and actually use their treason laws... lead by example, and all that. Anyway, what do the treason laws say in Ireland? "1.—(1) Every per ...

We start with the positives - to us - and that takes us naturally to the Sunday Express. The newspaper reports on the recent speech given by UKIP leader Nigel Farage in the den of vipers that is the European Parliament. Under the headline 'Even Germans Love EU Attack', the newspaper reports ho ...

Nothing to hide nothing to fear? Knowing how hysterical the British public get about 'paedophiles'... All in the name of the "war on" staged "terror"... Here's the first video proof of airport security workers strip searching white American schoolchildren. All in the name of everybody's saf ...

Facing South

Thanksgiving is here, Facing South readers -- time to start your ovens, pick your football games and bone up on your Thanksgiving knowledge. It's also, of course, time to reflect on the people and things for which you're grateful. For us at Facing South, that's an easy one: We're thankful ...

Thanks to our generous supporters (you can still donate today!), Facing South's Election Watch 2010 was a huge success. In case you missed them, here were some of the big stories we covered and broke about the changing Southern political landscape in 2010: 1 - HOW TO BUY A STATE LEGISLATURE ...

Two years after Congress promised to help late petitioners in a federal discrimination lawsuit brought by black farmers, the Senate has finally approved the money. On Friday evening, the Senate allocated $1.15 billion to settle charges that the U.S. Department of Agriculture discriminated ...

By Ariella Cohen, The Lens The Louisiana Bond Commission voted last week to issue ExxonMobil Corporation $12 million more in tax-free, low-interest bonds to finance an upgrade of the petro giant's Baton Rouge facility. The $12 million approved Thursday comes on top of $300 million in Gulf Oppo ...

Clean energy activists are elated over a big victory in the heart of coal country, where a Kentucky power cooperative has agreed to cancel plans to build a new coal-fired power plant. The East Kentucky Power Cooperative struck a deal with an alliance of grassroots activists and others to ...

CenterLine

The American Constitution Society’s New York Lawyer Chapter and Fordham University School of Law Student Chapter, along with theÂ New York State Bar Association on Civil Rights, present a discussion entitled, “Trial and Terror: A Discussion of When, Where and … Continue reading →

Belgium Charges Nine with Terror Ties Nine people were charged Wednesday in Belgium, accused of having links to terror groups after two reportedly unrelated sweeps of arrests yesterday, one against a âChechen-linked Islamist groupâ and one against a group believed … Continue reading →

Reports: Taliban Leader in Talks Was an Imposter The man believed to be senior Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour and who had met with Afghan officials for months in peace talks was actually an imposter, according to multiple reports. … Continue reading →

by Joshua L. Dratel According to media reports, during Omar Khadrâs Guantanamo military commission sentencing hearing last month, the prosecutor importuned the jury, composed of U.S. military officers, to âsend a messageâ to the world and impose a 25-year prison … Continue reading →

Tech Drive In

JDownloader is a simple cross platform download manager which probably is also one among the most popular download manager for Linux platform. JDownloader is Open Source and written entirely in Java. JDownloader Download Manager for Ubuntu/Linux JDownloader simplifies downloading files from O ...

Instructables is the first of its kind Open Source�restaurant in the world, perhaps the only one to exist on planet Earth. There are no secret recipes at Instructables�restaurant, everything is Open Source. You can simply log on to instructables.com and download your favorite recipes at no extra cos ...

Brukkon becomes the second software to be included into Ubuntu Software Center section for paid softwares. Ubuntu Software Center is the application that got maximum attention perhaps during last two release cycles and things are getting better everyday. Brukkon Puzzle Game Inspired by Class ...

If you are in search for Open Source applications for your mobile platform, we have produced one of the best collection of Open Source Android applications�already and now its iPhone's turn of affairs. Here is a useful collection of 10 Open Source iPhone applications. Last.fm for iPhone - Bring ...

If you have ever wished for a much more faster software downloads in Ubuntu, well, apt-fast could possibly make your wishes come true. Apt-fast is a simple bash script that accelerates apt-get download speeds coinsiderably. Apt-fast and Axel Apt-fast is a simple command line utility that c ...

Case About Bird Flu

Growing political resistance in Ireland and Germany to handing over money to Â banks is forcing the ECB to buy up souvereign debt Hyperinflation is logical result of the crumbling eurozone pyramid scheme German economists suggestÂ creating aÂ eurozone with two currencies Merkel admits that the euro ...

Slugger O’Toole http://sluggerotoole.com/2010/11/26/will-donegal-create-the-bounce-for-irelands-tea-party/ MarkÂ is entitled to be pleased. But Donegal is only the sparring match. The stakes have now raised to a critical high for the main bout.Â If Sinn Fein canât win big in the general election, ...

More than 100,000 people gather in Dublin to demonstrate against four-year austerity plan to reduce debts Henry McDonald Dublin guardian.co.uk, Saturday 27 November 2010 14.23 GMT More than 100,000 Irish citizens took to the streets of Dublin today to protest against the international bailout and fo ...

Invisible Opportunity

By Les Visible One of the worst personal shortcomings a person can have is a lack of capacity to be embarrassed by their own behavior. Alex Jones is a classic example. When I heard what he said, I couldn’t believe it at first. It’s the sort of thing that only gets said by absolutely sold [...]

By Les Visible We’ve been waiting and watching for some time. We’ve been traveling through a period of fits and starts that has gone on longer than anyone expected; those of us paying any attention anyway. For the rest of us it’s just been an extended period of ever increasing, restless sleep. It’s ...

By Dr. Ron Paul The growing revolt against invasive TSA practices is encouraging to Americans who are fed up with federal government encroachment in their lives. In the case of air travelers, this encroachment is quite literally physical. But a deep-seated libertarian impulse still exists within the ...

Veterans Today

That was the headline over a story – wonderful news, I say, if it’s true – in Israel’s English language newspaper, the Jerusalem Post, on 25 November. Alan Hart On behalf of Zionism’s colonial project in Palestine, the writer, Isi Leibler, was verbally crucifying one of Britain’s most influential Je ...

Either might force international community’s hand, suggests Halper Stuart Littlewood The other day I looked back with sadness on how nothing had changed for the better since my last trip to Palestine three years ago. On that occasion I also visited Gaza, an experience indelibly etched on my memory. ...

By Hamid Waheed: What wonders me is why the army is sleeping and not projecting its sincere efforts for common Balochi. Are they too simplistic or they have no knowledge of perception management. The efforts of new political setup are all excellent measures but hopefully will take into considerati ...

Every two years, SIAL ,the world’s largest food event for professionals in the food sector, comes to Paris. This year SIAL , the global food marketplace ,was held from October 17- October 21 at Paris Nord Villepinte which is easily accessible by suburban trains. It was held during France’s transpo ...

SPANISH WINES A WINE HISTORY LESSON AND DESCRIPTION OF REGIONS By Carol Duff STAFF WRITER/Editor It is said that Spain is the country with the most land devoted to growing grapes. Although it is unclear when wines were first cultivated in Spain or who brought wine making techniques, it is likely tha ...

electric politics

How strange that we Americans refuse to take responsibility for our future. Instead of recognizing our political system for the broken shambles that it is, and trying to fix it, we're waiting, seemingly paralyzed, for some kind of savior or external intervention. Good luck with that! To talk about ...

When a distinguished constitutional scholar from Yale Law School warns that within the next few decades we have a 20-25% chance of a presidential dictatorship in America unless we adopt important structural reforms, well, we should pay attention. Bruce Ackerman's suggestions for reform in his lates ...

There's big trouble brewing along our southern border. It's not just the millions of illegal aliens pouring into the U.S., and it's not just the tens of millions of their Mexican brothers and sisters who'd like to join them, but a question of how to cope with a neighboring, semi-failed narco-state ...

In the U.S., the financiers want to bleed the country dry. In France, it's the President. (Well, the financiers there, too.) But the big difference is, in France people register their objections with significant political action while in the U.S. people go to Jon Stewart's post-modern mutual admira ...

You don't have to be a genius, or even highly educated, to realize that Washington is not working. As in, not working, period. We seem to be on a roller coaster to hell, or at least to the third world. And there's no exit. Public exasperation is at record levels — it should be no surprise that the ...

PR News

NEW YORK: American Express is preparing for "Small Business Saturday," an integrated program that partners with Facebook and is aimed at encouraging cardholders to shop at small businesses on November 29.

The Story Behind the Story

To honor the memory of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, I think it important to post the following correspondence with independent researcher and film-maker John Hankey. This written dialog was first posted on Rense.com by Mr. Hankey back in 2007. A. True Ott, PhD The Reason JFK Jr Was Murdered From John Ha ...

Understanding Lightning âNeltronsâ is Key to Cold Fusion One manâs study of lightning and itâs effects led to his discovery of the Neltron – tiny negative particles of matter smaller than electrons. The Van Allen Magnetic belts discharges tiny negative particles into the part of the air where helium ...

So you state that President Obama is depressed? How did you come by this information? From a direct source still working within the White House on a daily basis. As I had stated previously, tensions at the White House have reached a critical stage. The infighting among staff is off the charts. ...

The new world currency apparently will be tied to “carbon credits” as the standard of value.Â Â Never mind that global warming (aka CLIMATE-GATE) is a massive hoax and fraud.Â Rather than issue worthless fiat paper money, why not issue ‘carbon credits’ on a global scale.Â Keep in mind that any an ...

America is Great —– Because America is Good!! By A. True Ott, PhD, June 1, 2010 The famous French statesman and historian Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) traveled widely through America in the year 1832. Following his tour of America, he wrote extensively about what he saw and experienced here. ...

Amid allegations of stuffed ballot boxes and other fraud, 12 of 18 candidates for president have called for the elections to be cancelled, and accuse President René Préval of trying to fix the contest.

The former head of the counter-terrorism division of India's external intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) believes that the imminent release of US State Department information by Wikileaks will mainly address corruption in high places.

Left Foot Forward

Another week, another chameleon-like manouvre from the Liberal Democrats as the tuition fees crisis looks increasingly likely to be the party's poll tax moment. As Patrick Wintour writes in the Guardian, many Lib Dems have privately admitted their regret over signing the NUS pledge opposing tuition ...

Wagner's dreams of snow-capped glory may have gone up in smoke yesterday, but there's still hope for those hoping to stick it to Simon Cowell - and do the same to the Clegg-eron coalition over their savage cuts agenda. Captain SKA's hit video "Liar Liar" - featured on Left Foot Forward ten days ago ...

In some respects, managing the North Korean regime is rather like the British government negotiating with Irish republican separatists in the days leading up to and following the Downing Street Declaration and the Good Friday Agreement; talks continued, in one way or another, in spite of attempts to ...

As bloggers, foreign diplomats and freedom of information evangelists revel in what twitter invariably named #cablegate, concern should also be expressed for the long term consequences of the leak by a disillusioned US military officer.

Intel Hub

Editors Note: Why were journalists prevented from filming if the drill was simply called off due to bad weather? This looks like a clear attempt by certain people within our government to start a possible world war. Associated Press Joint South Korean and US landing exercises on Mallipo beach were c ...

Rady Ananda, Contributing Writer Activist Post Need a good laugh? Check out the bizarre reasoning offered in support of the Patriot Act for Food (S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act), which the U.S. Senate will vote on shortly (likely Monday). From a need to stop food smuggling, to the law is ...

Austerity measures drive 100,000 protesters to the streets of Ireland, another 100,000 in Italy as Europeans continue to rage against the international banking machine. Eric Blair Activist Post The international bankster machine seeking to colonize Western nations through debt is now meeting resista ...

Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com North Korea upped the ante on Sunday as South Korea and the United States conduct military exercises described as a show of force in response to North Korea’s artillery bombing of South Korea’s Yeonpyeong Island last week. North Korea’s missiles “appear to be targeting our fi ...

S. Paul Forrest Activist Post America was founded in an attempt to escape the oppression of not only religious expression, but also the misrepresentation from a monarchist system that cared only for the proliferation and interests of the elite class. After 250 years, we have found ourselves in the ...

FRS

Oped News, September 3, 2010 US Prisons, Muslims and Human Rights Violations By Bonnie Kerness A former warden at Marion, Illinois said at a congressional hearing, “The purpose of the Marion Control Unit is to control revolutionary attitudes in the prison system and in society at large.” In 1986, I ...

Live from Palestine, 16 September 2010 Anna Baltzer writing from Lopez, Colombia “They only see our water, our land, our trees. They don’t care about us. They want the land — without the people on it.” These words are not of a Palestinian farmer but of Justo Conda, governor of Lopez Adentro Indigeno ...

[In Britain, they call it "a historian's dream, a diplomat's nightmare." It seems many secrets of US imperialism are now in the streets.--Frontlines ed.] Guardian Editorial: WikiLeaks: Open secrets Never in their wildest nightmares could politicians, bankers, dissidents, world leaders and governmen ...

[An Indian news outlet reports on the Nepali UCPN(M) plenum meeting, now concluded.--Frontlines ed.] Kathmandu, Nov 28 (IANS) A year after India started paramilitary operations against its own outlawed Maoist party and nearly five months after security forces killed a top guerrilla leader, Nepal’s M ...

Ken O'Keefe

A lovely story by Salem News in which my mother is interviewed. It is indeed the boundless, unconditional love that she gave to me that is responsible for any good deed I have done in my life. If only every child were given the same, we would have a better world within one generation.� Thank [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Road to Hope convoy stalled at Egyptian border The Road to Hope humanitarian aid convoy continues its role in the international community’s collective mission to break the illegal siege of Gaza and deliver desperately needed aid to the people of Palestine in Gaza. The convoy c ...

PRESS RELEASE 1 November 2010 Road to Hope (R2H) Convoy in Positive Dialogue with Egyptian Officials Access to Gaza via Egypt looking likely � Arriving at the Libyan/Egyptian border on 26 October, 2010, the Road to Hope Convoy continues to wait at the border. However, over the last two days increa ...

A new press release is being written regarding our being released from Greek custody but I submit this now as we were unable to while we unable to release two days ago. PRESS RELEASE 12 November 2010 Road to Hope (R2H) convoy members kidnapped from Libya to Greece Greek Commandos board Strofades IV ...

Europe struggled mightily Friday to keep the debt crisis from engulfing country after country. Portugal passed austerity measures to fend off the speculative trades pushing it toward a bailout and Ireland rushed to negotiate its own imminent rescue.

My AntiWar

Summary: wikileaksAs the Bush Administration was getting ready to leave office at the end of 2008 senior U.S. officials threatened to sanction Armenia over alleged sale of light weapons to Iran five years earlier, a secret State Department diplomatic cable made available by Wikileaks shows. No imme ...

Summary: GatesA secret document published by Wikileaks said that US Defense Secretary Robert Gates told his French counterpart Herve Morin that Israel could strike Iran without US military support but the operation might not be successful. But Gates downplayed the value of any military operation ag ...

Summary: Iran doesn?t need to buy North Korean missiles to defend itself, the country?s ambassador to Moscow said, seeming to deny allegations in U.S. embasssy cables released by WikiLeaks.org and provided to newspapers including the New York Times. ?There are no such military needs from Iran?s sid ...

Summary: US officials are documented expressing concern over the Israeli assessments suggesting that the Islamic Republic is getting closer to manufacturing nuclear weapons, The elements stressed that back in 1993 Israel claimed that Iran would have a nuclear bomb by 1998 at the latest. In a 2005 c ...

Summary: wikileaksDefense Secretary Robert Gates was quoted in a February cable as telling Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini that “It will be a different world in five years’ time” if Iran acquires a nuclear warhead. “Without progress in the next few months, we risk nuclear proliferation in ...

CASMII - Campaign against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran

Summary: wikileaksAs the Bush Administration was getting ready to leave office at the end of 2008 senior U.S. officials threatened to sanction Armenia over alleged sale of light weapons to Iran five years earlier, a secret State Department diplomatic cable made available by Wikileaks shows. No i ...

Summary: GatesA secret document published by Wikileaks said that US Defense Secretary Robert Gates told his French counterpart Herve Morin that Israel could strike Iran without US military support but the operation might not be successful. But Gates downplayed the value of any military operation ...

Summary: Iran doesn’t need to buy North Korean missiles to defend itself, the country’s ambassador to Moscow said, seeming to deny allegations in U.S. embasssy cables released by WikiLeaks.org and provided to newspapers including the New York Times. “There are no such military needs from Iran’s ...

Summary: US officials are documented expressing concern over the Israeli assessments suggesting that the Islamic Republic is getting closer to manufacturing nuclear weapons, The elements stressed that back in 1993 Israel claimed that Iran would have a nuclear bomb by 1998 at the latest. In a 200 ...

Summary: wikileaksDefense Secretary Robert Gates was quoted in a February cable as telling Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini that "It will be a different world in five years' time" if Iran acquires a nuclear warhead. "Without progress in the next few months, we risk nuclear proliferation ...

The Daily Galaxy

“It is truly amazing to be looking, albeit on a microscopic scale, at the conditions and state of matter that existed at the dawn of time.” Guido Tonelli -CMS Experiemt With less than a month of heavy-ion running, three experiments...

String theorists Neil Turok of Cambridge University and Paul Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor in Science and Director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton believe that the cosmos we see as the Big Bang was actually created by...

Studies of two supernova remnants using the Japan-U.S. Suzaku observatory revealed never-before-seen embers of the high-temperature fireballs that immediately followed the explosions. Even after thousands of years, gas within these stellar wrecks retain the imprint of temperatures 10,000 times hotte ...

Alive today, the Jurupa Oak Thirteen thousand years old; it experienced an Ice Age and existed before agriculture. Scientists spotted the unusual Oak in an unlikely spot, rocky hills too dry and hot for it, and found that it survives...

US cable TV losing subscribers as online grows according to a study released last week. The findings point to a growing pool of potential customers for online services such as Hulu and Netflix and newcomers like Apple TV and Google...

Natural News

(NaturalNews) "There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious -- makes you so sick at heart -- that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've g ...

(NaturalNews) It doesn't take a bureaucrat long to create an empire. John Pistole, the FBI agent who took over the Transportation Security Administration on July 1 told USA Today 16 days later that protecting trains and subways from terrorist attacks will be as high a priority for him as air travel. ...

(NaturalNews) Going to hospital these days for even the simplest medical treatments has become a high-risk activity that could result in serious injury or death. A recent story in the New York Daily News tells of Stacey Galette, a 30-year-old woman who lost both her legs due to a surgical error. Gal ...

(NaturalNews) Marijuana prohibition is the cornerstone of the U.S. police state. It gives cops a reason to search vehicles and keeps DEA employees on the payroll while filling the prisons with literally millions of people who have harmed no one except themselves. Country singer superstar Willie Nels ...

(NaturalNews) We've been covering the soft drink industry lately, publishing articles on soda pop marketing to children that seem so bizarre, many people are simply unable to believe them. So for this article, I've quoted numerous sources to allow everyone to verify the "unbelievable" facts of this ...

Threat Level

The first news reports from WikiLeaks’ long-expected disclosure of a quarter-million State Department diplomatic cables appeared on major newspaper websites on Sunday, though WikiLeaks’ own website was unavailable, purportedly due to a traffic-flooding cyberattack. WikiLeaks’ media partners report ...

Three of the admins behind The Pirate Bay are all still guilty, a Swedish appeals court decided on Friday, but their jail time has been reduced. Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundstrom’s prison sentences have all been reduced from the original one year to between 4 and 10 months each, though t ...

A grassroots opt-out protest planned at airports around the country appears to have fizzled, as early reports indicate that most travelers on Wednesday were opting out of opting out of fully body scans. The protest, called by groups such as WeWontFly.com, encouraged airline passengers to opt out of ...

The Pentagon warned lawmakers on Tuesday that WikiLeaks’ long-expected release of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables could come as soon as Friday, according to a report from Bloomberg. The cables “touch on an enormous range of very sensitive foreign policy issues,” according to an e-mail ...

A California man charged with violating the DMCA by installing mod chip in Xbox 360 consoles won’t be allowed to claim “fair use” at his scheduled jury trial next week, a federal judge ruled Tuesday — a decision potentially devastating to the defense, and not particularly favorable to anyone who thi ...

PERRspectives : Blog

This weekend, Americans learned of a new domestic terror threat in Oregon. According to the FBI, Somali-born student Mohamed Osman Mohamud planned to detonate a bomb during the annual Christmas tree lighting in Portland. But while all eyes are now fixed on the tree lighting plot, down the road in ...

What's the difference between Richard Nixon and Sarah Palin? Lipstick. (Well, that and military service, graduate education, a keen intellect, years of national political experience and a proven grasp of policy foreign and domestic.) But as a fellow "serial collector of resentments", the half-ter ...

On the day of his booking on conspiracy and money laundering charges five years ago, disgraced House Majority Tom Delay proclaimed, "Let people see Christ through me." Now a convicted felon, Delay isn't turning the other cheek but instead decrying "the criminalization of politics." If that sounds ...

Despite a decade of Bush tax cut windfalls for the wealthy pushing income inequality to levels not seen since 1929, Republicans are calling for another $700 billion, 10-year payday for the richest Americans. So it should come as no surprise that as corporate profits reached an all-time record in th ...

Be careful what you ask for; you just might get it. So it is with the uproar from disingenuous conservatives trying to capitalize on the public outcry over the TSA's airport body scans and aggressive pat-downs. While Charles Krauthammer now spouts "don't touch my junk" and Rush Limbaugh declares, ...

Blackspot News Feed

In the lame-duck Congress agenda, perhaps the most substantive debate is over whether to continue tax breaks for the rich. President Obama and most Congressional Democrats want to extend the Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans, everyone making under $250,000. Republicans want to extend the tax ...

By now, everyone has heard of the conservative "tidal wave" that has overtaken Congress and most gubernatorial seats throughout the U.S. Indeed, anyone who has watched mainstream media coverage probably understands the midterm election results as a "rebuke of Obama's policies," with the "Tea Party m ...

When people the world over think of Arizona nowadays, they generally think of Governor Jan Brewer, Sheriff Joe Arpaio or state representative Russell Pearce – the poster children of the state's move toward legalized discrimination and racial profiling. If they are closely following the politics of t ...

Two years ago, President Obama sailed into the White House on the winds of voters’ desire for widespread social change and their disgust with two wars and a massive recession associated with George W. Bush. Only two years into his presidency and the concurrent Democratic takeover of Congress, howeve ...

Institute for Middle East Understanding

Life in the OT is about to get even more difficult, I believe, but perhaps we are finally approaching the breaking point. If that is the case, we must be there for the Palestinians on all the fronts: to protect them, to play our role in pushing the Occupation into unsustainability, to resist re-occu ...

Public Citizen in Texas

If you are traveling this holiday weekend, here’s a short cautionary tale for your holiday enjoyment. A musician named Dave Carroll recently had difficulty with United Airlines. United apparently damaged his treasured Taylor guitar ($3500) during a flight. Dave spent over 9 months trying to get Unit ...

Climate change may be affecting the nasty weather that is ensnaring many holiday travelers. And to add insult to injury, warming will affect the price, quality, and availability of your favorite Thanksgiving foods, especially turkey, whose meat will become firmer, less juicy, and tasteless.

For the last few months people who wanted to install solar systems in the Oncore service area have been disappointed as they have been told that the incentive funds are all reserved. It turns out there is another pool of funds available that has been harder to find. The Oncore website lists all the ...

Tom Delay has been convicted of money-laundering by a Travis County jury. After three days of deliberation inÂ former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay‘s corruption trial the jury returned a verdict of guilty. Tom DeLay‘s defense team, presented five witnesses over two days, resting its caseÂ last Th ...

AsÂ Public Citizen’s offices close for the Thanksgiving holiday, the jurors in the money-laundering and conspiracy trial of former U.S. House GOPÂ Majority LeaderÂ Tom DeLay had still not comeÂ back with a verdict. At the end of the day on Tuesday they informed the judge they were “making progress,” ...

Grassroots

707729276_d8407e6648_t.jpg � � Today, November 25th, is observed around the world as the International Day to Eliminate Violence against Women. Grassroots International joins women and men everywhere�in calling for an end to all violence � int ...

pociano-and-willy.jpg They cross borders to survive. Young people, like Ponciano Perez, 19, left, take the long north-bound journey from Mexico, seeking an opportunity in the United States. The trip can take several weeks or months. Without mo ...

Climate

Source:� AP Facing another year without a global deal to curb climate change, the world's nations will spend the next two weeks debating how to mobilize money to cope with the impacts of a warming world.

Source:� Reuters A UN panel has issued 20 million credits to 12 projects that destroy the waste gas HFC 23, despite a UN investigation into flaws in the way the projects account for their emissions cuts.

Source:� Calgary Herald Some might call it a lost cause, but Alberta Environment Minister Rob Renner said he's once again heading to a UN climate change conference to make sure the province's voice is heard.

GreenBiz

Without a clean, constant and secure water supply, many of the world's industries would undoubtedly collapse. But with every risk lies an opportunity, and smart companies such as PG&E and Woolworths are moving to reap the rewards from reducing their customers' consumption and strengthening their sup ...

Russia holds vast potential for business action on climate change and should start to become a higher priority in managers' minds. Doing sustainability work there is difficult, however, because of low awareness, governance obstacles, and slow going in the policy realm, yet these obstacles aren't ...

From coast to coast, and in every professional sport, teams and their owners are making significant progress on reducing their environmental impacts, from solar-powered scoreboards to stadiums located in the heart of neighborhoods, rather than beyond city limits.

Russia holds vast potential for business action on climate change and should start to become a higher priority in managers' minds. Doing sustainability work there is difficult, however, because of low awareness, governance obstacles, and slow going in the policy realm, yet these obstacles aren't ...

Booman Tribune

Sorry, for the light posting, but we had our Thanksgiving Dinner at home today, and so it was a long day of cleaning and cooking, along with watching the New York Football Giants prevail. I notice that the Cowboys, Redskins, and Eagles all lost this week, so I can't ask for more. The long weekend ...

In theory, this doesn't sound so bad. The Republican who will lead the chief investigative committee in the House is planning to vastly expand scrutiny of the Obama administration by seeking new subpoena powers for dozens of federal agency watchdogs in hopes of using their investigations and his ...

Oh, Christ. Now I not only have to put up with Black Friday, but Cyber Monday, as well? Why don't we name each and every one of the 28 shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas? And we can have different discounts for each day. Discuss

It's interesting that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) designated the Family Research Center (FRC) as a hate group and now sees no real distinction between them and the Aryan Nation groups. Unsurprisingly, the FRC has responded with fury. They point with righteous indignation to their recent ...

Oh my God! Willie Nelson was smoking pot on his tour bus. I sure am glad that the Border Patrol put a stop to that outrage. The next thing you know they'll do something crazy like arresting Tommy Chong for selling bongs on the internet. When will these hippies ever learn? So, what does possessi ...

Futurismic

Personal Information is a new serial sci-fi webcomic from Sarah “Does Not Equal” Ennals. Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness! Share and Enjoy:Follow Futurismic on Twitter for more nuggets of near-future fun and weirdness!

Via Michael Anissimov, here’s a spectacularly empty diatribe against “deathhackers” by TechCrunch‘s Paul Carr. Carr objects to the idea of radical life extension as advocated by transhumanists, which is fair enough, but as written here most of his objections seem to boil down to personal distate tow ...

Plenty of folk have been linking to this excerpt from Matt Ridley’s new book The Rational Optimist, and with good reason – it’s a provocative piece that plays to advocates (and opponents) of free trade, open exchange, copyright reform and much more. The basic thesis? The one persistent factor that h ...

Prosthetic limbs are still in their infancy, but there’s a lot of progress being made: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is working with Darpa (who else?), and has a research grant for trying out their mind-controlled modular prosthetic arm on five test subjects over the next couple of years ...

The irrepressible Scott “Basic Instructions” Meyer has the lowdown if you’re thinking of a career in futurism: Click through for the whole thing. But take it from me, being a futurist is a lot of work for no money. Or maybe that’s just the way I do it… and I’ve never been featured in a [...]Follow F ...

Therapy News

A GoodTherapy.org News Summary Depression, stress, and anxiety lead people to find a therapist or counselor at all times of the year. But emotional triggers and stressful tasks and obligations are especially close-packed during the holiday season. Most of the time, the holiday celebration itself—the ...

A GoodTherapy.org News Summary So many factors go into our mental health and well-being. Environment, social ties and family dynamics, access to green space, physical health, leisure time, diet and nutrition, financial peace of mind, career situation, and sense of ability to influence one’s own fate ...

A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Coaching is a part of many roles outside of athletics: therapists, teachers, physicians, counselors, and parents all incorporate some degree of coaching in their work. A new study has looked at two coaching methods: compassionate coaching (focusing on the possible acc ...

A GoodTherapy.org News Headline Workplace wellness programs were really gaining some momentum before the economy hit its rough patch in 2008. But new a new study shows that, even in tough economic times, such programs are more than worth the initial investment. From an employee perspective, good wel ...

By Dana Vince, LMHC, Infidelity / Affair Recovery Topic Expert Contributor Click here to contact Dana and/or see her GoodTherapy.org Profile Men, their needs, and what it has to do with affairs. I’d like to preface this article by stating that this article is intended to focus on the needs and role ...

Mountaintop Removal

Mountaintop Removal film hits screens Louisville Courier-Journal ... the Louisville Film Society will host two screenings of a new documentary about the effects of mountaintop removal mining on a small Eastern Kentucky ... and more��

Local Bluegrass and Contra Dancing Lessons (tonight) to Bring Awareness to ... Buffalo Rising By Rebecca Garofano & Ryan Weberling: Mountaintop removal is a method of coal mining used in Appalachia since the 1970s. As an extension of conventional ...

The Brooklyn Ink Anti-Corporate Activist Rev. Billy Arrested in Midtown The Brooklyn Ink But the carols we sang to Chase and Citibank earlier that day were to CONGRATULATE and THANK them for DISIVESTING in mountaintop removal! ...

Another Big Bank Turns Away from Mountaintop Removal! It's Getting Hot In Here I'm saying 'Thank you' this week to PNC bank � which has just released its public position on Mountaintop Removal (MTR) Coal Mining. ... Lift up your eyes...Daily Kos all 2 news articles��

Memeorandum

David Carr / New York Times: A Media False Alarm Over the T.S.A. — If a squadron of mad scientists surrounded by supercomputers gathered in a laboratory to try to conjure a single news topic that would blow up large, they could not touch the T.S.A. pat-down story. — It began with a Drudge Repor ...

Omri Ceren / Mere Rhetoric: Wikileaks - Anti-Israel Foreign Policy Experts Got Saudi Arabia, Other Arab Countries 100% Backward On Iran Attack — By — It didn't get nearly as much play as it should have, but Obama's June 2009 meeting with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah ended with the monarch flyin ...

Spiegel Online: US Diplomats Told to Spy on Other Countries at United Nations — The US State Department gave its diplomats instructions to spy on other countries' representatives at the United Nations, according to a directive signed by Hillary Clinton. Diplomats were told to collect informatio ...

Anita Gates / New York Times: Leslie Nielsen, Actor, Dies at 84 — Leslie Nielsen, the Canadian-born actor who in middle age tossed aside three decades of credibility in dramatic and romantic roles to make a new, far more successful career as a comic actor in films like “Airplane!” and the “Naked ...

Dan Snierson / EW.com: Leslie Nielsen, ‘Airplane!’ and ‘Naked Gun’ star, dies at 84 — Leslie Nielsen, who dazzled with deadpan in The Naked Gun and Airplane!, passed away on Sunday at a hospital near his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he was being treated for pneumonia, according to the Ne ...

China Dialogue

Xie Zhenhua is China’s chief climate negotiator. As ministers prepare for two weeks of global warming talks, he tells Meng Si his team will take an open approach. On the morning of 25 November, Xie Zhenhua, China's chief climate negotiator, met with chinadialogue and other local NGOs to discuss Chi ...

Next week, international climate-change negotiations begin in Cancún following 12 months of setbacks. Tan Copsey explains why chances of serious progress towards a global climate treaty are looking slim.The need for action on climate change has never been more urgent. Greenhouse-gas emissions for 20 ...

Rich nations have made bold statements about channeling climate finance to developing countries, but concrete agreements remain elusive. As we approach the next round of UN negotiations, Jessica Brown sums up the latest developments.Raising and delivering finance to support the fight against climate ...

Construction of a large-scale dam in Tibet is prompting familiar fears downstream on the Brahmaputra. Joydeep Gupta reports on India's concerns.Only five rivers in the world carry more water than the Yarlung Zangbo, or Brahmaputra as it is known when it reaches India. Only one carries more silt. Ris ...

Grassland protection policies in northern China threaten to wipe out a rare breed of horse and ancient cultural emblem. Zhou Wei went to meet two herders trying to save them.On November 12, two herders from Khaskatun in Inner Mongolia wrote to the local authority petitioning it to protect the Mongol ...

The disagreement between the Southern Poverty Law Center and the new groups designated as anti-gay hate groups hit the Washington Post this week. And while I am happy with the coverage, I am not happy with how these groups are trying to cover their tracks. They are trying to make it seem as if [.. ...

Threat Level

The first news reports from WikiLeaks’ long-expected disclosure of a quarter-million State Department diplomatic cables appeared on major newspaper websites on Sunday, though WikiLeaks’ own website was unavailable, purportedly due to a traffic-flooding cyberattack. WikiLeaks’ media partners report ...

Three of the admins behind The Pirate Bay are all still guilty, a Swedish appeals court decided on Friday, but their jail time has been reduced. Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde, and Carl Lundstrom’s prison sentences have all been reduced from the original one year to between 4 and 10 months each, though t ...

A grassroots opt-out protest planned at airports around the country appears to have fizzled, as early reports indicate that most travelers on Wednesday were opting out of opting out of fully body scans. The protest, called by groups such as WeWontFly.com, encouraged airline passengers to opt out of ...

The Pentagon warned lawmakers on Tuesday that WikiLeaks’ long-expected release of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables could come as soon as Friday, according to a report from Bloomberg. The cables “touch on an enormous range of very sensitive foreign policy issues,” according to an e-mail ...

A California man charged with violating the DMCA by installing mod chip in Xbox 360 consoles won’t be allowed to claim “fair use” at his scheduled jury trial next week, a federal judge ruled Tuesday — a decision potentially devastating to the defense, and not particularly favorable to anyone who thi ...

Reuters - Most Popular Articles

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has carried the nickname "bulldozer" for much of his life as he rose through the corporate and political world with a can-do spirit, winning the respect of bosses and voters alike.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Gold rebounded on Monday after an early drop spurred buying from jewelers in Asia, but further gains could be limited by a rally in the U.S. dollar amid persistent euro zone debt concerns.

ublic prosecutors in Colombia have strongly criticized the Panamanian government for granting political asylum to one of Colombiaâs former spy directors, who is facing charges of spying on opposition figures. Continue reading →

After Downing Street.org

Swanson the War Myth-Buster by Ralph Lopez Since Helen of Troy many people have suspected that most purported reasons for war are really just the excuse, and that wars are rarely fought for the reasons stated. In "War is a Lie" David Swanson carves himself a monumental task: to prove the truth of ...

Imperial America's End Time - by Stephen Lendman Noted analysts on both left and right see America's empire in decline. In his 2009 book, "Global Depression and Regional Wars," James Petras said: "All the idols of capitalism over the past three decades have crashed. The assumptions and presumptions, ...

By Norman Solomon Compared to the kind of secret cables that WikiLeaks has just shared with the world, everyday public statements from government officials are exercises in make-believe. In a democracy, people have a right to know what their government is actually doing. In a pseudo-democr ...

Grist - News

by Agence France-Presse. WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government on Wednesday designated "critical habitat" for polar bears who live on Alaska's disappearing sea ice, a move that could affect new oil and gas drilling projects in the Arctic. The Fish and Wildlife Service set aside 187,000 square miles ...

by Jonathan Hiskes. Today, Walk Score rolled out new heat maps for the 2,500 largest American cities, providing a quick way to get a sense of where cities are most walkable. That could be useful if, say, you're visiting an unfamiliar city on holiday travel and want to burn off some extra stuffin ...

by Jonathan Hiskes. Newly elected Republican leaders may be blocking passenger-rail plans in Wisconsin, Ohio and New Jersey and wishing it were the 1950s in Congressional transportation policy, but at least we're doing better than Moscow. Stephen Smith of Market Urbanism takes a look at new may ...

by Jonathan Hiskes. Natasha Pettigrew, a Maryland Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, died on Sept. 20 after a Cadillac Escalade struck her while she was bicycling. The 30-year-old was training for a triathlon about an hour before sunrise. The driver didn't stop and didn't call police until ...

by Agence France-Presse. SEOUL -- The world's 20 largest rich and emerging economies including China vowed Friday to "spare no effort" at upcoming climate change talks in Mexico, a year after Beijing stymied a deal in Copenhagen. "We will spare no effort to reach a balanced and successful outcom ...

Washington Independent

Closing The Washington Independent and reducing capacity at The New Mexico Independent are difficult milestones in an otherwise remarkable year for The American Independent News Network. We have been able to accomplish so much, and with so much less. So in the spirit of the holiday, I want to give ...

A new study on the impact of anti-illegal immigration policies in Prince William County, Va., found that the Latino population decreased substantially after the policy was implemented in 2007, with a 7,700-person drop in the non-citizen Latino population between 2006 and 2008. (That number accounts ...

Democratic donors and operatives gathered yesterday at the Mandarin Hotel for a conference hosted by the Democracy Alliance to talk about the past midterm elections and what they mean for strategy on various policy and electoral issues going forward. The event was closed to the press, but Politico m ...

Digg Green

Unfortunately, corn ethanol and terrestrial plant-based biodiesel face significant environmental and social dilemmas. Reliance on food crops for fuel poses problems for populations around the world that rely on basic staple foods such as corn.

Invisible Opportunity

By Les Visible One of the worst personal shortcomings a person can have is a lack of capacity to be embarrassed by their own behavior. Alex Jones is a classic example. When I heard what he said, I couldn’t believe it at first. It’s the sort of thing that only gets said by absolutely sold [...]

By Les Visible We’ve been waiting and watching for some time. We’ve been traveling through a period of fits and starts that has gone on longer than anyone expected; those of us paying any attention anyway. For the rest of us it’s just been an extended period of ever increasing, restless sleep. It’s ...

By Dr. Ron Paul The growing revolt against invasive TSA practices is encouraging to Americans who are fed up with federal government encroachment in their lives. In the case of air travelers, this encroachment is quite literally physical. But a deep-seated libertarian impulse still exists within the ...

On one of the highest hilltops in Elbert County, Georgia stands a huge granite monument. Engraved in eight different languages on the four giant stones that support the common capstone are 10 Guides, or commandments. That monument is alternately referred to as The Georgia Guidestones, or the Ame ...

THE CREATION (A recent message given to George Green from the "guys upstairs") We are pleased to bring understanding and clarification on what is the Creation. This is a challenge because your language of communication has not the words for describing this conception of Creation. So as not to put an ...

In his previous books, James Kunstler focused on the shortsighted vision of suburban planning; now he expands that view to the country's urban growth challenges and the need to drastically change our current course of auto and oil dependency. The Long Emergency is filled with history plus eye-openin ...

Dear Friends, Thank you for your interest in our catalog of unusual and informative materials. The knowledge gained will give you choices in the days ahead and lessons of discernment as the chaos increases. It is necessary for those of you who are now in the "know" so to speak, to begin to focus ...

Take action to keep GE salmon (”Frankenfish”) off your plate, because as Food and Water Watch state: Genetically engineered salmon are on a fast track to being the first GE Animal approved for human consumption. The FDA is trying to approve GE salmon as a new animal drug, but the truth is U.S. Food ...

The idiom “tilting at windmills” (or turbines) derives from the novel Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. It means to attack imaginary enemies, or fight unwinnable or futile battles. Big Oil and Coal (and others) are in a futile battle against clean energy. Clean energy will inevitably emerge victor ...

Sadly, Jeff Siegel from GreenChipStocks.com came up with this funny yet negative, caption (albeit, for a negative image). However, I’m sure Jeff would be the first to tell us (and I WHOLE-HEARTEDLY agree) that if we all invested our action and money in clean energy our choices would be less depressi ...

Please add your caption in the comments section below. Winner will be chosen on Friday and the cartoon will be posted again with caption and credit to the winner. Note: The winning caption will be selected from all participating websites: Wend Greenery, Ecopolitology, Twilight Earth, PlanetSave an ...

Inhabitat

Summer Rayne Oakes is one of the fresh faces pushing the green movement forward – anÂ eco-model, social entrepreneur, author, editor, and designer, this girl has got it going on! This week we’ve teamed up with Summer to give away some of her favorite green picks to one lucky reader. An eco-fab stash ...

Some people have everything – except for the time to appreciate it all. If you have a friend or loved who always seems a bit too stressed to stop and smell the roses, then give them the relaxing holiday gift they need most by simply donating a little bit of your time. From babysitting their [...]

If you thought staying home on Black Friday was a feat, then you have to hear about what these 15 die-hard, self-proclaimed fashion addicts are doing. Rather than succumbing to the lure of the mall shops and web sales this season, these 15 Americans are instead solely relying on swapping and remakin ...

The leather jacket is certainly a mark of all things cool, rock and retro, and theÂ motorheads at Oakland-basedÂ Platinum Dirt have aptly figured out a way to embodyÂ this way of being in their new line of road-readyÂ leather jackets.Â Made from the reclaimed upholstery of vintage Lincolns, Jaguars ...

Have you already started to become a bit stressed about all the Christmas shopping you have to do? Do you feel pressured to shop with money you don’t have, rather saving it or using it for something more substantial? While we enjoy giving and receiving gifts with some sensibility and social-respons ...

WIRED Magazine | Science

It’s the day before Thanksgiving, and you forgot to reserve a turkey. Or maybe you are short on time, or just really lazy and don’t want to actually cook the meal. Either way, modern food science has the entire turkey day menu covered: Just add water. We put together an all-instant menu, made up o ...

Microbial stowaways on Mars rovers could raise false alarms for astrobiologists hoping to find evidence of life — or worse, could wipe out native Martians waiting in the soil. A new study suggests that current techniques for cleaning Mars rovers could let some of the hardiest life forms, single-cel ...

See Also: Exclusive Excerpt: Hack the Planet Scientists Still Waiting to Hear From Journalists Covering Copenhagen Yes Men Want Scientists to Get Political Russian Heat, Asian Floods May Be Linked The Psychology of Climate-Change Denial Brandon’s Twitter stream, reportorial outtakes and citizen-fu ...

To find your favorite coffee shop in an unknown city, getting directions via satellite works like a charm. But that technology won’t get you from Earth to Jupiter. So theorists have proposed a new type of positioning system based on blinking stars instead of satellites. By receiving radio blips ...

Via: National Geographic See Also: Astronomers Make 5-Gigapixel Image of Milky Way Beautiful 17-Gigapixel, 96.5-Gigabyte Image of Yosemite 570-Megapixel Camera Prepares to Hunt for Dark Energy Earth as Art: Stunning New Images From Space Follow us on Twitter @davemosher and @wiredscience, and on ...

PakAlert

Not only does Obama's election as US President now 'whitewash' a terribly-soiled US image in the world, but it also allows the cabal to exploit his committment to widen the war in Afghanistan to their advantage. It is therefore a black/Obama administration that would be led by the nose to attack Pak ...

Hezbollah, has smashed the myth of Israel’s invincibility, broken the barrier of fear, increased the popular demand for resistance, exposed the fake peace process and rejected appeasement, acquiescence and surrender. Hezbollah forces taught the world that Arabs can and will liberate Palestine bec ...

With the world coming down around America, Afghanistan a hopeless quagmire, even by “Vietnam” standards, the dollar in free fall, AIPAC spying openly revealed in civil proceedings and Americans, by the million, abandoning traditional news media, the “nuclear option,” an attack on an American city by ...

Something is going on that your government does not want you to know about. Very few journalists have written about it and little or nothing has appeared in the mainstream media. The story could be one of major stories of our time. Western powers have tried to destroy gold as a backing for currencie ...

Andy Worthington

For anyone unfamiliar with “kettling,” Wikipedia accurately describes it as “a police tactic for the management of large crowds during demonstrations or protests,” which “involves the formation of large cordons of police officers who then move to contain a crowd within a limited area,” so that prote ...

On Wednesday December 1, from 6.30 to 9.30 pm, I’ll be discussing the fate of Aafia Siddiqui at the London Muslim Centre, 46-92 Whitechapel Road, London, E1 1JX, with other speakers including Moazzam Begg, former GuantÃ¡namo prisoner and the director of Cageprisoners, and the journalist Yvonne Ridle ...

I first heard from Benjamin Wittes of the Brookings Institution about two years ago, when he was conducting research into the cases of the prisoners held at GuantÃ¡namo, for a project entitled, “The Current Detainee Population of GuantÃ¡namo: An Empirical Study.” Wittes got in touch because he had d ...

It is now ten days since the British government reached a financial settlement with 15 former GuantÃ¡namo prisoners — and also with Shaker Aamer, the last British resident still held in the prison — and I fear that, given the relentless “churnalism” of the news cycle (to quote the investigative jour ...

Last week, I undertook my first ever interview with Christopher Renner of Community Bridge Radio, which describes itself as “the progressive alternative to talk radio in Manhattan and across the state,” and is the winner of the 2010, 2008 and 2007 Kansas Association of Broadcasters’ First Place Awar ...

drinking liberally in new milford ( with beersphere feeds )

As fun as it would be to keep talking about national politics, it’s probably time to return my gimlet eyes to local politics. (Wait! one last sip: How awesome are Republicans? They may be drunk with victory, but boy, are they mean drunks! http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/gops-top-tax-guy ...

Just a quick picture, from a Pew Research poll conducted from July 29 to August 1, of where the Republican party, the Tea Party and Sarah Palin have failed even more than Barack Obama in their messaging: Americans love pork. Even the GOP voters. The sound you just heard in the back of your mind ...

The ink on the legislation is still drying and, already, the mortgage mill industry is trying to gut the little things that might help to hold them accountable for their bit part in the complete economic collapse of this nation: Dodd-Frank requires that lenders retain five percent of every loan on t ...

Is this a parody or real life? You decide. Citizens of New Milford: I want you to know that I'm on the job 24/7. Twenty four hours a week, seven months a year. But even with this strict time commitment, I can't be expected to keep up with everything going on in this vast metropolis. That's why I l ...

The conservative Blue Dogs acted as Bush's domestic poodles, helping to move a dangerous right wing agenda. They were owned by the right wing and corporations and there is no big surprise why more than half of the Blue Dog caucus (28 of 54 members) were slaughtered in the 2010 elections. So far, ...

SPL Center

The FBI issued its 2009 Hate Crime Statistics report this morning. The report shows that the number of reported hate crime incidents fell from 7,783 to 6,604. But a pattern that has existed since the FBI started tallying these numbers remains: the LGBT community is, by far, the most victimized by vi ...

Madison, Georgia. Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura and âconspiracy expertâ Alex Jones creep through the woods and hunker down beside a tree. Jones points through underbrush. Ventura leans forward, peers at something, and says in his ominous rumbling baritone, âWhat in the hell is this?â The camer ...

With Monday’s guilty plea of former Alabama state trooper James Bonard Fowler in the 1965 slaying of civil rights worker Jimmy Lee Jackson, another of the infamous cold cases that have languished unresolved since the turbulent peak of the civil rights movement was closed. Fowler, 77, will spend six ...

Unsurprisingly, Glenn Beckâs 9.12 Project has absorbed much of its founderâs famous paranoia. Based on Beckâs fevered lectures and paid endorsements, legions of 9.12âers have eagerly bought up overpriced gold coins, non-hybrid seeds, and lots of ammo for use in 9.12 Project practice shoots. But not ...

Now that he’s gaining in years, former Klan boss and longtime white supremacy advocate David Duke, who in his youth gained a notorious reputation as a womanizing playboy, is apparently now shifting to a more traditional role of moralizing geezer. Witness his most recent video “lecture,” wherein he p ...

change: org.

When someone has a lengthy track record of making ridiculous anti-gay statements, or using the N-word 11 times in a six-minute conversation, you hardly expect them to be given millions of dollars for their gift of gab. Yet Sirius XM Radio has just inked a deal with "Dr." Laura Schlessinger, the cont ...

African American boys in Oakland don't have the easiest road, if you go by these statistics. Two out of three of the young people are being held in juvenile detention centers in August and September in that city were black, and 50 percent of the new detainees were black boys. (The total population o ...

OK folks, we have to talk. We had a brutal, yet predictable, midterm election, there is no doubt about that. I am not one to hop up and down and yell "I told you so!" at administrations, especially when I need something from them (well, perhaps I am), but I am getting desperate and they haven't been ...

This fall, ColorLines announced a new campaign: "Drop the I-Word." The campaign is asking all Americans — and especially the mainstream media — to pledge not to use the terms "illegal immigrant," "illegal alien," and even that lovely, plain-old shorthand "illegal," in hopes to get these dehumanizin ...

In a speech delivered this April at Fresno State, animal behaviorist Temple Grandin suggested installing live video feeds of livestock operations. Later that same month, the Vermont Senate passed a bill that might lead to video cameras in slaughterhouses. According to WCAX News, "The bill would set ...

Common Dreams -News

by Kanya D'AlmeidaNEW YORK - What if young boys were imbued with a sense of empathy and fair play to counteract a culture that victimizes women? Could they grow up to become part of a generation that renounces gender violence once and for all?read more

by Jim LobeWASHINGTON - Given all the other foreign policy challenges he is dealing with, the last thing U.S. President Barack Obama needed three weeks after Republicans swept mid-term elections was the outbreak of a major new crisis on the Korean Peninsula.Yet the revelation that North Korea has s ...

by Matthew O. BergerWASHINGTON - While many U.S. residents prepare for their annual Thanksgiving feast Thursday, one in six are at risk of hunger - including a quarter of all children in the country.Globally, 925 million people, or a little less than 15 percent of the world population, is undernouri ...

The online website WikiLeaks on Sunday blamed the temporary outage of its site on a denial-of-service attack by unknown hackers trying to prevent its release of hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. State Department documents.read more

by David LeighThe United States was catapulted into a worldwide diplomatic crisis today, with the leaking to the Guardian and other international media of more than 250,000 classified cables from its embassies, many sent as recently as February this year.read more

Lifehacker

Windows: Geotag Security is a simple program with one function, scrubbing the geotag data from your digital photos. If you've got a batch of photos that need their location sanitized it'll wipe them clean while preserving the rest of your EXIF ...

Windows only: 7-Zip, one of those essential little Windows utilities that always makes our Lifehacker Pack, has updated to version 9.2. The tool still does its basic job—un-zipping archive files of all kinds—in the same fashion, but now suppor ...

It's pretty easy to simply drag a file into Gmail to attach it. If you're attaching a few files regularly, it's even easier to load them into one of Windows 7's very handy jump lists and drag them over in two clicks. More�� ...

Your body can naturally generate Vitamin D, but only if it gets enough of the right kind of sun. For those living above a certain latitude, that daily sun is hard to come by. David McCandless explains how to get it. More�� ...

iPad only: The iPad is a device destined to be handed over to friends and passed among family members, but there are no user accounts or variable browser settings. Enter Switch, a clever browser that allows user accounts and anonymous guest br ...

Water Privatization

SHAH ALAM, 22 NOVEMBER, 2010: The licence of Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas) should be withdrawn if it is found to collect the cost of 20 cubic metres of subsidised water for Tabung Budi.

Tony DiSisto , a candidate for the District 4 City Council seat that represents south Tampa, is campaigning on a 10-point "Tampa Plan." In it, he offers his positions on such topics as the budget, job creation, roads, water management, downtown and culture. In a news release DeSisto e-mailed with hi ...

SHAH ALAM, 22 NOVEMBER, 2010: The licence of Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas) should be withdrawn if it is found to collect the cost of 20 cubic metres of subsidised water for Tabung Budi.

With the toll from extrajudicial killings (EJKs) reaching 22 under President Aquino's term by the count of local human rights group Karapatan, Anakpawis Rep. Rafael Mariano filed two resolutions urging the House of Representatives to probe the cases of the two latest victims.

Korea Water Resources Development Corp. (K-Water), winning bidder for the privatization of the Angat hydroelectric plant, is not walking away from the deal because of a Supreme Court-issued temporary restraining order.

Guardian

The first batch of leaked US embassy cables reveal a desire by Saudi Arabia and other Arab states to attack Iran, and US espionage against the UN. Follow all the reaction and diplomatic fallout2.27pm: The White House has just ordered all US agencies to review safeguards on classified information, ac ...

�� Andrew Sparrow with all today's political news, including George Osborne's 'autumn statement' on the state of the UK economy �� Read Andrew Sparrow's lunchtime summary2.23pm: You don't often find Unite lining up with the Institute of Directors (IoD), but there are some similarities in what they a ...

Simon Harwood served with internal disciplinary papers accusing him of responsibility for death of newspaper sellerThe police officer who attacked Ian Tomlinson at the G20 protests will be accused of "inadvertently causing or contributing" to his death at a gross misconduct hearing, it was revealed ...

Three men appear in South African court charged with the kidnapping and murder of Anni Dewani near Cape Town Three men have appeared in a South African court, charged with kidnapping and murdering a woman on her honeymoon in Cape Town with her British husband. The case was adjourned for a week.Anni ...

�� Man in uniform turns gun on troops in eastern Afghanistan �� Gunman shot dead after attack �� No British troops in region, but many US forcesSix Nato troops in Afghanistan were shot dead during a training exercise today by a man wearing a border police uniform, the coalition said.The incident to ...

McClatchey

PORT-AU-PRINCE -- Election day protests swept Haiti on Sunday evening, when thousands of people took to the streets to rally against what they believed was widespread fraud in the day's presidential race, including pre-stuffed ballots and thousands missing from voter rolls.

WASHINGTON — The initial leak on Sunday of hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables documented calls by Arab leaders for a U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, instructions to U.S. diplomats to collect U.N. officials' personal data and unflattering portraits of foreign leaders.

BBC - Richard Black's Earth Watch

If you're planning to come to the 2012 Olympic Games in London, don't bring a hunger for bluefin tuna with you; you'll be disappointed. London's Olympic Committee is one of a number of authorities and businesses that have just pledged to play no part in the marketing of bluefin "until the fishery is ...

At a recent meeting in Tianjin, there's been intriguing discussion about where the host country, China, is going on climate change. And where it's going is, it seems, towards national legislation to restrict the growth of greenhouse gas emissions. This national law is likely to emerge as part of th ...

Paris and Brussels are presently seeing skirmishes over the fate of what's become the oceans' most iconic creature - the Atlantic bluefin tuna. � This week and next, the French capital hosts the annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (Iccat) - the org ...

It's the time of year when an environment correspondent's thoughts turn inevitably to the UN climate summit. A little less than a year after filing into the frozen wasteland of Copenhagen's Bella Center, we're looking this year to the sunnier climes of Cancun in Mexico. Already the wordplay is being ...

From the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Nagoya: Was it an end, or a beginning? As delegates streamed away from the convention centre here in Nagoya - and stream they did, many of them having delayed flights to make sure no stone they could turn was left unturned - the talk was of a ...

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